Ziehharmonika — meaning in English

English meaning

• accordion noun A boxy musical instrument with folding bellows, played by pressing buttons or keys while squeezing air through it.
• concertina noun A small musical instrument like an accordion, played by pressing buttons while squeezing the bellows in and out.

Senses

Ziehharmonika is used for these senses in English:

• accordion A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).
• concertina A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.

accordion — full definition

1. noun A boxy musical instrument with folding bellows, played by pressing buttons or keys while squeezing air through it.
2. noun A user-interface element made of sections that expand and collapse, similar to the instrument's folds.

concertina — full definition

1. noun A small musical instrument like an accordion, played by pressing buttons while squeezing the bellows in and out.
2. noun Something that folds up in pleats, the way a set of joined picture frames or a bus door can.
3. noun (military) Barbed wire coiled up and used to block a path or area.
4. noun A label made from a small folded booklet, up to 32 pages long, used as an insert.

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